Director
Tennessee Department of Health, Tennessee, United States
Abelardo Moncayo, Ph.D., is the Director of the Vector-Borne Diseases Program at the Tennessee Department of Health where he has worked for the past 20 years directing a multi-disciplinary program which including the epidemiology, laboratory and public health entomology aspects of the vector-borne diseases. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and a Senior Lecturer at the Vanderbilt Center for Medicine, Health and Society where he has been teaching Global Health Principles and Practice for the past 15 years. He received his M.S. degree at Ohio University and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts focusing on the epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts. After his Ph.D. he did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Tropical Diseases and Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, where his research focused on the molecular evolution, epidemiology and ecology of mosquito-borne arboviruses in Latin America and Africa. His research interests include understanding the epidemiology and ecology of vector-borne diseases to identify risk factors and inform disease control and prevention measures. He is past President for the National Association of Vector Disease Control Officials, the mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association, and founder and current President of the Tennessee Mosquito and Vector Control Association (TMVCA).
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